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KDOC Website. The Kentucky Department of Corrections is a state agency of the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet that operates state-owned adult correctional facilities and provides oversight for and sets standards for county jails. They also provide training, community based services, and oversees the state's Probation & Parole Division.
In January 1983, the Kentucky Department of Corrections received control of the property and renamed it Northpoint Training Center. It was intended as a minimum-security institution for fewer than 500 inmates, but quickly changed to a medium-security institution with a proposed population of approximately 700 inmates.
Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex. / 37.90472°N 83.26972°W / 37.90472; -83.26972. Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex ( EKCC) is a minimum and medium-security prison located in West Liberty, Kentucky. It opened in February 1990 and had a prison population of 2,100 as of 2019.
United States Disciplinary Barracks. / 39.37833°N 94.93528°W / 39.37833; -94.93528. The United States Disciplinary Barracks ( USDB ), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility [2] located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth ...
For three hours, Dawes abandoned his assigned post providing inmate security in a room at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, and he failed to make most of his assigned hourly phone check ...
The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP), also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland", is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners located in Eddyville, Kentucky on Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River, about 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Eddyville. [1] It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
Prisons have long been pitched as engines for economic development. Elliott County officials say they’ve seen positive results so far despite concerns. An Eastern Kentucky prison is expanding.
The facility would house just over 1,400 inmates, including 1,152 people at a medium-security federal correctional institution and 256 people at an adjacent minimum-security federal prison camp ...